Category: Currahee

Sandbags and logs

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WARMUP: Windmills, 4 count squats, imperial Walker’s, merkins, then light ruck shuffle to loosen everything up.
THE THANG: Buy in: every 2:30 complete the following w/ruck on entire time: 10 squat cleans w/sandbag, 10 merkins, 10 OH sandbag press and 10 bentover sandbag rows. 4 rounds for 10 mins total. Honestly this was a terrible idea. It takes almost the entire 2:30 to complete so very little rest between rounds.
Quick break to recover them grab a couple of sandbags and move to back of school. Grab the logs, 3 PAX per log and move them back to front of school. Each team front rack carried their log the length of the parking lot. On other end perform 10 team overhead log presses then 10 team log squats. Front rack carry log back to start point. Set log down then complete the following: 3 rounds of 3 exercises. 1st round is 21 reps of each, 2nd round is 15, and last round is 9. 3 exercises were front ruck squats, overhead ruck presses, and swings.
Pick up the logs and take them back to spot behind school. Grab sandbags and move back to cars. Couple of minutes left so another 3 round, 3 exercise routine. This time reps are 15, 10, then 5. Exercises were overhead lunges, ruck curls, and flutters. Times up. Work was done and no one was injured. Successful morning!
Thx Sprocket for the opportunity.

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Miles of Conversation

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WARMUP:
THE THANG: Started with a couple of laps around the parking lot “slick”. A few warm ups. 3 of us walked the rest of the time switching 60 lb sandbag every 3 minutes. Sprocket went running and met us at COT.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Welcome Party Prep

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This morning at Currahee, four men discussed what to expect in GrowRuck events. Here’s what we did:

– Overhead Ruck Walk length of the parking lot
– Overhead Ruck Lunge Walk – half the lot
– Bear Crawl half the lot
– Ruck 2 miles
– PT Test (52 Ab Lab Sit-ups and 42 Merkins in 4 minutes)
– Picking Cherries for 1 Minute

NMM:
We discussed the Dynamic Inspection and Welcome Party and what to expect. It is one of the hardest beatdowns you will encounter. No walking, always moving, heavy sweating, and lots of yelling. It is designed to get you smoked fast and make you uncomfortable early. Lots of back and forth on a football field. Lots of confusing instructions. Lots of misdirection and penalties. Where’s my license? Did they move my ruck? When will we stop with the overhead carries? Then the Cadre get to “scuff you up.” This is where you spend several minutes in a rotating fashion between Cadres. Each Cadre has their own greatest hits, but they are designed to make it suck. Upon completion, you will certainly wonder if you have what it takes to complete the ruck. That’s the design.

At some point you will have a PT test. Recently, that PT test has included 2 minutes AMRAP Merkins (42 minimum), 2 minutes AMRAP Ab Mat Sit-ups (52 minimum), and 2 mile run (slick) in 18 minutes or less. Failure to meet the standard results in a penalty.

So, that’s why we did what we did – to get prepared for the expected while being prepared for the unexpected. Great work today, men. Thanks for the opportunity.

Aye!

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3 Evolutions of Hurt

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PAX were encouraged to add an extra 10-15 pounds to their rucks for this week’s version of intense ruck training. Right after a quick disclaimer it was explained that the reason for the added weight was to prepare for the reality of GORUCK event. Rucks never weigh 20 or 30 pounds at an event. They start there and go up with the weight of gear, food, and water. So why train with less than you are going to shoulder when it comes time to face the challenge?

Unfortunately only 3 PAX carried the added weight this week, so hopefully the message sank in. And the added heckling from Cheddah for those not increasing weight probably didn’t hurt either.

WARMUP:
SSH X25
Merkins (slick) X10
That’s all…..

THE THANG:
Evolution 1:
Ruck to the top of the parking lot, drop the sandbags and ruck to the other end of the lot. We had the full length of the soccer field fence on our left side.

– Bear crawl 3 parking spots, complete 1 merkin
– Bear crawl 3 parking spots, complete 2 merkins
– Continue the series until the end of the spaces and 10 merkins was reached.

Collect the sandbags and complete a ruck around the big loop.

Evolution 2:
Drop the sandbags at the end of the parking lot on the same section we bear crawled. Walk down to the half way point and drop our rucks.

Ladder with 10 on one end and 1 on the other.
– Curls with the ruck
– Bent over rows with the sandbag
– Run between ~50yds

Collect all the gear and complete another big loop.

Evolution 3:
Pretty simple and terrible. Starting at one end of the stretch we were working on and moving the full length of the fence.

Toss the sandbag and complete a Man Maker until you reach the end.

MARY:
Went around the group calling exercises. From memory, we had LBCs, Big Boys, Box Cutters, Freddy Mercuries, and at least one more I can’t remember.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
9/11 WOD at NAFO this Saturday at 0630. Bring a ruck and sandbag

COT:
Spocket is doing some great things with this AO!! I appreciate the opportunity to be a part of it.

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Nine Eagles WOD

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WARMUP: SSH, windmills, 7’s with 100 yd run and burpees and both ends
THE THANG:
“NINE EAGLES”
6 rounds:
• 11 Ruck Push Ups
• 11 Ruck Lunges (total)
• 11 Ruck Overhead Press
• 11 Ruck Overhead Squat
• 11 Ruck Swings
• 11 Flutter Kicks (4 count )
• 11 Mountain Climbers (4 count)
• 11 V-Ups
• 11 Ruck Plank Pull Throughs (total)
• 101 meter Sandbag Shoulder Carry
• 101 meter Sandbag Farmer Carry

Ruck: Men 30lb
Sandbag: Men 60lb

MARY: Box cutters, LBCs
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Closed in prayer

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Spicy Turtlehead

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This morning we were blessed with a beautiful breeze from the south. And we got right to it at 0500.

Ruck/COP:
w/Alternating Shuffle around school
SSHs, LSSs, Ruck Merkins

Weinke: A Blue Light Special, if you will…
Buy In: 200m Suitcase Carry

30 min AMRAP:
20 Ruck Swings
15 Ruck High Pulls
10 Ruck Thrusters

Cash Out: 200m Suitcase Carry

We had a few minutes to spare to I had to reach into my Mexican Junk Pile to see what we could do to close out the WOD…

Finisher:
Partner Up
CMIYC around parking loop x 2
P1 Farmer Carries both Rucks
P2 5 Merkins, Chase & Catch Up

Sprocket – you are a leader that we all look up to in The Fort. Thanks for the tap and including me in the “Spicy Tour”.

Punch List out.

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A Mountain of Cards

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WARMUP: A short jog followed by an equally short nur. Some stretching movements.
THE THANG: Deck of cards:
Diamonds: Merkins
Spades: Bent Over Rows
Hearts: Curls
Clubs: Flutter Kicks w/ Press (in cadence)
4 other cards: 300m run/jog
About 12 cards in, a man (Joe) appeared in the gloom inquiring about a workout groom he read about online. He has friends that do F3 up in the Huntersville area. Joe is now known as Walk-On for obvious reasons.
With the extra time:
Suitcase carry 100yds
5 Man Makers
10 Really good squats
Suitcase carry 100yds
Thrusters
MARY: Mixed throughout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: 5th Core Principle and we named Walk-On

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We found a snowman and a new site Q

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WARMUP: Put rucks on back. Started moving.
THE THANG: This was an old school fire ant wienke YHC had in storage from Dec 2020 and seemed fitting for a longer distance touring of Tega Cay.

We set off towards Walmart and at the bottom of Hubert Graham (maybe 16-17 min pace), we stopped for a series of exercises we’d repeat 3 other times with increases in rep count of 5 (started with 5 reps).

Exercises were: man makers, lunge walks (both legs is 1), curls, swings, up rows.

On our way up the hill, we crossed paths with a running snowman who was moving and in training for GrowRun NO. Next stop was Walmart parking lot by brewery for 10 reps, same exercises. Discussions with DR Pax Rousey uncovered his past experiences with GrowRuck Myrtle that Mainframe and Divac tried to not relive in their minds. Wegmans and PL May have come up.

Once finished with our counts of 10, we went in the back of Walmart and made a quick decision not to see if we could make it over to Colosseum…that would have been tight getting back to COT.

At the bottom of HG once again, we started or rep counts of 15 and found our frosty snowman yet again, this time with a ruck on his back…running no less. He joined us for our final 15 before heading back to COT.

Before getting to COT, we had just enough time for a quick mosey shuffle around the small parking lot with rucks on.
MARY: nada
ANNOUNCEMENTS: completed
COT: also check

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